Author: Robert P. Irvine

‘The Poetic Genius of my Country…bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.’Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) …

‘The Poetic Genius of my Country…bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.’Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) …

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This gu …

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This gu …

Jane Austen is one of England’s most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This gu …

Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen’s most popular novel. The story turns on the marriag …

Offers Galt’s most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of Scottish history Provides a comprehensive Introduction by the volume editor which tells the story of this novel’s production and rec …

A playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics. In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up t …

A playful, self-reflexive tale of politics and ethics. In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up t …

Offers Galt’s most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of Scottish history Provides a comprehensive Introduction by the volume editor which tells the story of this novel’s production and rec …